Tag Archives: advertising

More digital, less kids

txt: Digital kids ditch homework for networking
British 15-to-19-year-olds admit spending significantly less time doing homework than they used to as a result of their use of social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, according to research published today.
While teachers and parents will be dismayed, the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey also makes uncomfortable reading for [...]

The medium is the message from our sponsor

Facebook announced its new social advertising plans.
text from: Rough type -The social graft
Infect me. I’m yours.
Facebook, which distinguished itself by being the anti-MySpace, is now determined to out-MySpace MySpace. It’s a nifty system: First you get your users to entrust their personal data to you, and then you not only sell that data to advertisers [...]